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In a nutshell: People with autism tend to resist a sensory illusion called the “rubber hand illusion”, suggesting they draw less on contextual sensory information to make sense of the outside world.
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In a nutshell: The floppiness we experience when we sleep, called muscle atonia, is triggered by nerve cell projections running from a small region of the brain called the PnO to the spinal cord.
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In a nutshell: In lab tests human reaction times are longer for blue colours than for others. This research helps explain why: nerve signals for seeing red and green colours travel more rapidly from eye to brain than those for blue.
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In a nutshell: Supports idea that there are two stages to processing a planned arm movement, such as reaching for your mouse. First: consult your senses and motivations. Second: convert into an action plan.
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In a nutshell: One explanation for this unexpected finding is that signals from single nerve cells are corrupted as they travel from cell to cell to the brain. An alternative explanation is that as the brain pools information from many nerve cells to…
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By Adrian Carter

In a nutshell: Adds to an emerging theory that the amygdala, an almond-shaped bundle of neurons, is a “behavioural relevance detector,” that helps us sort out which human behaviours we should be paying attention to.
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In a nutshell: This finding will help work out the role of a mysterious sheet of brain cells, called the claustrum. Is it a brain “orchestrator”, helping create our seamless experience of the world? A traffic controller? Or something else entirely?
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